NUC Buying Tomorrow - Wich cpu Celeron 3205u vs I3 5005u

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Hi!

Im about to buy an MSI NUC for my Store.

I will mainly use Spreadsheets and tend to have 6 to 15 tabs open

AND its a music shop, so i think i might have the necesity to be able to hande some daws maybe in the event that people might want to try a midi controler or something. Nothing like +10 plugins open at once, just 1 or 2 so they can try it out, i wont be mixing or doing music production in this.

I alrready have 4gb of RAM and a 240gb UV400 SSD.

I wanted to know if the Celeron would be able to handle this, because im from Argentina and there is a big price difference between the two.

Barebones MSI with Celeron 3205u $273

Barebones MSI with Core I3 5005u $500

I will be buying this tomorrow.
Thank you!
 
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That's mostly RAM intensive. Tabs in the background don't use many CPU cycles, and the spreadsheets will mostly just be sitting in RAM. I'm more concerned about if and when you have DAWs running, but if that's rare, the Celeron will probably work fine for you. Mine is great with just a bunch of tabs open in Chrome.
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Hard to say. The i3 has two more threads and 33% more clockspeed, but nearly double the price is hard to swallow. I'm sure Celeron will "handle" whatever use you have for it, but it might be noticeably slower - things like delay in switching tabs, programs being slow to open, that sort of thing.
 
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Hi! Thank you for the awnser

That would be a problem, i got the ssd to avoid that, and im used to an I5. I wouldnt want it to be slow to do such basic things. I thought celerons now were as good as any other cpu for that use.

Can you confirm on this? If so is a deal breaker.
 
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A modern desktop Celeron is clocked close to 3ghz. The NUC celeron is 1.5ghz. I have a 1.8ghz Haswell Celeron in one of my laptops, and while it's incredibly snappy if I don't have a ton of things open, the low clockspeed and lack of cores begins to show when trying to multitask.
 
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Would it be to much trouble to try it out with 2 basic spreadsheets open, and 10 tabs? (facebook, twitter, 2-4 youtube, gmail, or similar things) or have you tried it sometime?

I think your haswell 1.8 celeron to this one would be a pretty close comparation. If it stats to be slow with this, i will go for the I3. If there is no difference i will go back to considering the Celeron. Right now im leaning more thowards the I3. Its almost twice the price, but if the celeron wont do...
 
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That's mostly RAM intensive. Tabs in the background don't use many CPU cycles, and the spreadsheets will mostly just be sitting in RAM. I'm more concerned about if and when you have DAWs running, but if that's rare, the Celeron will probably work fine for you. Mine is great with just a bunch of tabs open in Chrome.
 
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Thank you! The daw thing wont be an everyday thing, if it can handle it just fine its good enough!
 
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